craisse

Old French

Alternative forms

• craesse, craise, crase, crasse, crese, creisse, cresse
• graise, grase, grecce, grece, greece, grees, greesce, greische, greise, greisse, gres, gresce, grese, gresse

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *crassia.

Noun

craisse oblique singular, f (oblique plural craisses, nominative singular craisse, nominative plural craisses)

1. fat

Descendants

• French: graisse
• Norman: graisse
• → Middle English: grece, grees, grese, greez, gres, gresse
  • English: grease
  • Scots: gree (a back-formation)

References

• “craisse”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
• gresse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub